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15/5/2013: ARNIE DOES TOXIC AVENGER
On the eve of the Cannes festival and market, Retired Californian Governor and Austria’s most famous action star, Arnold Schwarzenegger, is about to sign up for Troma Entertainment’s new big budget action comedy, The Toxic Avenger – as the man who trains the unfortunate Toxic to use his powers for good.
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15/5/2013: BLADE RUNNER / VANGELIS / HERITAGE ORCHETSRA / VIVID / SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE
That’s no ordinary band, it’s the 30 piece Heritage Orchestra playing a fusion of electronic and symphonic music that has strings, synthesizers, sound effects and singers to perform Blade Runner’s retro-futuristic score in full with a stunning visual backdrop engulfed by the film’s signature, dystopian ambiance, a unique part of Vivid Sydney on May 26 at the Opera House. BOOK NOW
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15/5/2013: NOAH TAYLOR JOINS PREDESTINATION
Multi-award winning actor Noah Taylor joins two-time Oscar nominee Ethan Hawke and AACTA award winning Australian star Sarah Snook in the Spierig Brothers’ Predestination. Noah’s career spans more than two decades and includes starring roles in such seminal films as Almost Famous, Shine, Tomb Raider, Red Dog, Submarine, The Proposition, Vanilla Sky and Simon Magus.
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15/5/2013: WAR OF THE WORLDS A LA JEFF WAYNE’S MUSICAL
Captured live on stage in front of a sell-out audience at London’s O2 Arena on December 15, 2012, Alive! is a “unique musical extravaganza” based on H.G. Wells’ dark Victorian tale of a Martian invasion of England, screens in selected cinemas from May 24.
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23/5/2013: GREAT GATSBY, GREAT FIGURES
The Great Gatsby released in 49 territories outside the US/Canada, grossing $42.1m with 4.6m admissions from almost 8,400 screens. This is Baz Luhrmann's biggest opening ever, 38% higher than Australia in the same markets ($30.4m) and 3x higher than the same markets opening Moulin Rouge ($13.8m).
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23/5/2013: OLD GO FOR PING PONG GOLD
Ping Pong, the story of eight pensioners from four continents who meet in Mongolia to compete in the World Over 80s Table Tennis Championships and starring Australia’s own world champion and the world’s oldest competitive table tennis player, Dorothy DeLow, will open in Australia on June 6 (through Vendetta Films).
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23/5/2013: WISH YOU WERE HERE U.S. OPENING
Aussie thriller Wish You Were Here from Kieran Darcy-Smith and starring Joel Egderton, will open at Los Angeles’ Nuart Theatre and New York’s Sunshine, on June 7. “An idyllic beach holiday in Cambodia crash-lands into a hellish nightmare in this taut Australian drama about a missing person,” says Louise.
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5/5/2013: WOMEN DIRECTORS GET THE AWARDS VOTES
Women directors have won several of the top honours at the 2013 Australian Directors Guild Awards with Cate Shortland winning Best Direction in a Feature Film for Lore, Rachel Perkins winning for Best Direction in a TV Drama Series for Redfern Now (Pretty Boy Blue) and Jessica Hobbs winning for Best Direction in a TV Mini Series for Devil’s Dust (Parts 1 & 2).
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9/5/2013: AMPAS OPENS VOTING ACCESS FOR OSCARS
For the first time, the entire voting membership of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will automatically be eligible to vote in all 24 Oscar categories, Academy President Hawk Koch announced today at a meeting of the Academy’s members. The Academy’s Board of Governors approved a plan that will allow members to see the nominated documentary shorts and foreign language films either at a theatrical screening or on DVD.
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9/5/2013: NONI HAZLEHURST JOINS AFI/AACTA BOARD
Much loved actress Noni Hazlehurst replaces Sigrid Thornton on the AFI/AACTA Board, as Thornton resigns after her two year stint to focus on her work and family.
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